blister
English
/ˈblɪstɚ/
noun
Definitions
- A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
- A swelling on a plant.
- (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
- A bubble, as on a painted surface.
- (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
- A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
- a cause of annoyance
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French blestre.
Origin
Old French
blestre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiblister English
- beblister English
- blisterfoil English
- blisterlike English
- blistery English
- fever English
- fever blister English
- foil English
- microblister English
- blister Dutch, Flemish
- blíster Spanish, Castilian
- blister Polish
- blestre Old French